Translation word game!

Write a sentence, go to Babel Fish http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt and translate it into Japanese. Then copy the Japanese version back into the translate text box, and translate it back to English.

I simply did "This is just too funny" and got...

This is strange exactly excessively!

Oooh! Good idea! I was watching, "He's Just Not That Into You", and sent that through, and it comes back:

Exactly then there is no he in you

Way to go babelfish!

OMG - I just typed in, I'm bored to tears and a babbling idiot and got back....

I damage and make boringly the fool who clatters

My all time favorite, translated from English into Russian and then back into English (or so I've heard)...

"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

"The vodka is good, but the meat is bad."

Well, if you use Babel Fish it's not too bad: Spirit is willingly ready but flesh it is weak

But when you do the english-japanese-english you get: It heats heart truly and [re] physical weakness does

If we couldn't laugh we would all be insane.
turns into:
Us couldn' Laughing we of t entirely are abnormal.


Take this job and shove it.
turns into:
Take this work, push.


Babel fish originated in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Turns into:
As for Babelfish coupler Hiker' It occurred; S guide to galaxy.

I did a funny one and posted it but it has disappeared

I just typed in my boyfriend Kieran is a plumber

and got back...

My boyfriend key run is plumber

I just said my Cats names are Elmo, Sophie, Flutterby, Fluffy, Sunshine and Tales and the dog is called Chevy!

Name of my cat Elmo and Sophie, is the soft Flutterby sunlight and the story and the dog are called Chevy!

My third and final one for now

A common NZ saying is "Running around like a blue ass fly" and got back...

Like the growing of the blue donkey run around

It's time to sleep.

It time of s which sleeps.

I could do this all night

This is great way to pass the time!!
Which turns into:
"It is the large method this transferring time"

And I was just listening to Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen so I did Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
And I got "As for this is there a substantial life? Is this exactly the imagination?"

I put in:
I just stepped on a cat's tail!

And got:
As for me cat' So you walked exactly; The tail of s

Originally Posted by Momofmany

Take this job and shove it.
turns into:
Take this work, push.

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OMG am I glad I wasn't drinking when I read this!!!!!!!!!!!!

It doesn't work for me All I get is little boxes.

Originally Posted by WellingtonCats

A common NZ saying is "Running around like a blue ass fly" and got back...

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You inspired me to do a common Aussie saying

flat out like a lizard drinking

becomes:
Like the thing where the lizard drinks level

Originally Posted by Catkiki

It doesn't work for me

All I get is little boxes.

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You have to have your browser and OS set up for it. Likely you don't have the fonts, to start.

That said, I don't have scim in yet so I'm out. But I remember translating things by hand years ago and getting the weirdest stuff whenever there was slang. And worse, trying to make sure what I typed in Japanese wasn't all weird.

I wish I could remember what site it was a friend used to play around with... It translated the message though several languages and back (I want to say 10?). Much worse than being babelfished. It might have been lost in translation?

Ok, I put in "Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed"

and got:

A certain day that exactly doesn' The payment of t which starts occurring from the bed.



Then I tried "Riley is such a fat kitty" and got:

[rairi] is the kitty of fat quality very.

One of my favorite quotes, "Life is too short to drink bad wine."

Babelfish: Life to drink the bad wine, is short even excessively.

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It is better to remain silent and appear stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Your mouth is opened, removing everything remains rather than doubting, silently, to be foolish, kind of it is good.

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How empty are the lives of those who have never been blessed with the spirit of a little cat invading their hearts.

Mind of the small cat where the sky directly it invades the center is life of the person who is not praised under any condition how?

Good thing I don't need to communicate in Japanese to anyone - they'd think me very strange!

this is great! Looks like another great way to waste time! Or:
The large method of making time wasteful

Following on from wonderful NZ sayings, "get a big black dog up ya" comes back as "Profit do the melancholy where the top is large"